INTERNATIONAL RED WHEELS AGAINST RACISM
INTERNATIONAL RED WHEELS AGAINST RACISM | 20.03.2006 16:16 | London
In the Former British Empire!
April 6 - 9 2006
in West Essex and East London
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In the Former British Empire!
With UNICEF ambassador Vanessa Redgrave on board, the RED WHEELS AGAINST RACISM campaign is going into top gear this week as a world appeal to stop Basildon council bulldozing Britain's biggest Gypsy settlement is launched in Italy.
At the same time, Dale Farm residents are to take part in the
European-wide Action Week Against Racism, raising banners and bunting on an arch at the gateway to their village.
An update on Basildon's plan to spent nearly five million Euro destroying 86 homes at Dale Farm, is being sent shortly by the International Alliance of Inhabitants to the UN through the Habitat Advisory Group on Forced Evictions, as a priority case.
Meanwhile, some 50,000 people in 40 countries around the globe are to be contacted by email with a request to sign the the petition. To date about 1,000 names have been collected.
"This petition simply asks Basildon council to leave our homes alone,"
says Dale Farm spokesman Richard Sheridan. "We want to end UK ethnic-cleansing once and for all."
ROMA NATION DAY
The largest yet Roma Nation Day celebrations marking forty years of human rights campaiging by organisations representing Britain's 350,000 Gypsies and Travellers will take place next month.
Among events already scheduled are the following, sponsored by the Forum, which links Britain's Gypsies, Travellers and Roma with the Council of Europe in Strasbourg:
April 6 Forum delegation meeting at the
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
on current and future Government policy.
April 7 Opening of RED WHEELS FESTIVAL at 7.30pm
at Brentwood Theatre by Brentwood Gypsy
Support Group.
April 8 Roma Nation Day performance of
Michael Collin's play Traveller In Progress
at 2.30 pm Laindon Community Centre, Laindon
Also screening of the film ATCH by Jake Bowers.
April 9 International Meeting on Self Determination
with Tenants Association of Panjab
VOICE Refugee Forum
Festival Curry Dinner in West Essex/ East London
hosted by PAKI.TV Human Rights Monitoring Group and
Kingfisher Beer (to be confirmed).
INTERNATIONAL RED WHEELS AGAINST RACISM